May 30, 2013

In a
bid to promote financial inclusion in the country, Guaranty Trust Bank
Plc on Wednesday unveiled its social banking service on popular social
networking site, Facebook.

Speaking at the inauguration ceremony in
Lagos, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, GTBank, Mr.
Segun Agbaje, said the service would allow the public to open accounts
and get customer service support via Facebook.

He said the bank’s objective was to
engage members of the public where they worked, lived or played, adding,
“The new service will enable persons on social networks like Facebook
to commence a banking relationship and perform transactions 24/7, safely
and conveniently, without having to leave the platform.”

Agbaje said the service presently only
allowed people to open GTBank accounts, but pointed out that the bank
would introduce new service options that included money transfers,
airtime purchases and bill payments.

The GTBank boss added that the
institution was committed to the convenience of its stakeholders and
would continue to introduce value-adding alternative channels in the
future.

“GTBank has been at the forefront of
industry innovations within the Nigerian financial service sector over
the last 22 years. The bank is the first Nigerian institution to have
recognised online/social channels as an emerging service point, and has
over one million followers on Facebook; the largest for any African
bank,” Agbaje said.

The bank recently introduced the GTBank
mobile money that allows customers and non-customers to perform
transfers and payments from their mobile phones to any mobile phone
subscriber in the country

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